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Per review\nfeedback that fixes should not sit in the middle of a feature series, they\nare split out and sent on their own; the RWP series is reposted rebased on\ntop of this.\n\nAll six were flagged by the Sashiko AI review of the RWP series and carry\nindependent of RWP, apply to mm-new directly, and carry Cc: stable@.\n\n 1: fs/proc/task_mmu: a missing huge_ptep_modify_prot_start() in\n make_uffd_wp_huge_pte() can lose hardware Dirty/Accessed updates\n when PAGEMAP_SCAN write-protects a hugetlb PTE.\n\n 2: fs/proc/task_mmu: pagemap_scan_hugetlb_entry() compares the range\n against HPAGE_SIZE rather than the hstate page size, so it never\n write-protects gigantic hugetlb pages.\n\n 3: fs/proc/task_mmu: PAGEMAP_SCAN with PM_SCAN_WP_MATCHING over an\n unpopulated hugetlb range self-deadlocks -- pagemap_scan_pte_hole()\n calls uffd_wp_range() while walk_hugetlb_range() holds the hugetlb\n vma lock for read, and hugetlb_change_protection() then takes it\n for write. Install the marker inline instead.\n\n 4: mm/huge_memory: change_non_present_huge_pmd() drops pmd_swp_uffd_wp\n on a device-private PMD permission downgrade, silently losing the\n uffd-wp marker.\n\n 5: userfaultfd: must_wait() applies pte_write() to a locklessly read\n PTE without checking pte_present(), so swap/migration entries\n decode random offset bits and a thread can stay parked on a stale\n fault.\n\n 6: userfaultfd: __VMA_UFFD_FLAGS feeds VMA_UFFD_MINOR_BIT (41) to\n mk_vma_flags() unconditionally, an out-of-bounds write into the\n single-word vma_flags_t on 32-bit. Build the mask from config-gated\n per-mode masks so an unavailable bit is never materialised.\n\n\nThis patch (of 6):\n\nmake_uffd_wp_huge_pte() arms the UFFD_WP bit on a present HugeTLB PTE by\ncalling huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit() with a ptent snapshot that was\nfetched without the corresponding huge_ptep_modify_prot_start(). The\nstart helper is what atomically clears the entry so the kernel-owned\nsnapshot stays consistent until the commit; without it, the hardware may\nset Dirty or Accessed in the live PTE between the original read and the\ncommit, and huge_ptep_modify_prot_commit() (whose generic implementation\njust calls set_huge_pte_at()) then writes the stale snapshot back over the\nlive hardware bits, losing the update.\n\nThe non-hugetlb sibling make_uffd_wp_pte() does this correctly via\nptep_modify_prot_start() / ptep_modify_prot_commit(). Mirror that pattern\nfor the present-PTE branch. The migration case stays as-is -- migration\nentries are non-present, so there's no hardware update to race against.", "affected": [ { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "unaffected", "versions": [ { "version": "52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "50a25249a6355db74c2c1b6be541b4caab9f3655" }, { "version": "52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "8e39ed92d7c5c6bfc08dc45153916f49a4e98bab" }, { "version": "52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "6b7f774b8882445d9174681747d37c42548686a4" }, { "version": "52526ca7fdb905a768a93f8faa418e9b988fc34b", "status": "affected", "versionType": "git", "lessThan": "04718f7c9290f95385f0dd328758753dc1c36dec" } ] }, { "vendor": "Linux", "product": "Linux", "defaultStatus": "affected", "versions": [ { "version": "6.7", "status": "affected" }, { "version": "0", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThan": "6.7" }, { "version": "6.12.101", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.12.*" }, { "version": "6.18.42", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "6.18.*" }, { "version": "7.1.5", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "semver", "lessThanOrEqual": "7.1.*" }, { "version": "7.2", "status": "unaffected", "versionType": "original_commit_for_fix", "lessThanOrEqual": "*" } ] } ] } } }